Berezin’s research lies at the intersection of cultural and political sociology. In addition to numerous articles, review essays and contributions to edited volumes, she has edited four collaborative volumes: Democratic Culture: Ethnos and Demos in Global Perspective (with Jeffrey Alexander); an issue of Theory and Society (38 (4) 2009), entitled “Emotion and Rationality in Economic Life;” and an issue of Qualitative Sociology (37 (2) 2014), entitled Methods, Materials and Meanings: Designing Cultural Analysis.” She has Guest Edited with Michele Lamont, Alonzo Plough and Matthew Trujillo a Special Issue of Social, Science and Medicine (165 (September) 2016) on “Mutuality, Health Promotion and Collective Cultural Change.”

She has held fellowships from the European University Institute, the Leverhulme Trust, ASA Fund for Advancement of the Discipline and the German Marshall Fund. She is working on a monograph When Security Ends: the Crisis and Challenges to Democracy in Europe and Beyond that addresses the global resurgence of nationalism and the populist challenge to democratic practice.

Recent Courses Taught

SOC 2480/ GOVT 3633 Politics and Culture

SOC 430/630 Cultural Sociology

SOC 5020 Basic Problems in Sociology II

SOC 6840 New Approaches to Qualitative Methods

Departments/Programs

Sociology

Graduate Fields

Government

Peace Studies and Peace Science

Sociology

Research

Social and Cultural Appeal of Fringe Parties in France and Italy as a Response to Europeanization

Comparative Historical Study of Institution Building, Citizenship and Social Capital in Early 20th Century United States and Europe

Role of Emotions in Macrosociological Systems (i.e., Politics, Economics)